Running a small (textiles) business for five years

Today is the first of September. Here in the North-East of England, there is a change in the air and the temperature is cooler. Having brought up four children and having worked for fourteen years as a schoolteacher, the beginning of September has for a large part of my life meant the start of aContinueContinue reading “Running a small (textiles) business for five years”

Should you wash fabrics before quilt-making?

I’m just back from one of our twice-a-year quilting weekends away, which was thoroughly enjoyable. The journey to our quilting destination always involves visits to quilt shops en route and I usually buy fat quarters and scrap bags to stock up my ‘baskets of colour’, kept on the shelves behind my work table. There are […]